Organizational Stress and Resiliency. Employees and organizations face numerous demands as they attempt to excel. Our research program examines demands associated with high stress jobs (e.g. foreign language analysts, military personnel), as well as factors that sustain health and performance under difficult operational conditions. We are also involved in projects investigating how positive psychological states and stressors combine to predict health and performance among employees. Thomas W. Britt

Employment interview content and processes. What personal characteristics do interviewers try to assess in an employment interview, and how well do they measure these things? What do interviewees do to try to manage the impression they make on interviewers, and are these attempts successful? Although the interview remains the most popular personnel selection technique, relatively little known about the quality of the information obtained in interviews. Pat Raymark

Employee health and retention. My research addresses occupational health concerns faced by workers in three occupational contexts: military personnel, retail workers, and health care professionals (e.g., nurses). In the military context, I study personal (e.g., personality) and organizational (e.g., leadership) factors that contribute to Soldiers' stress resilience, mental health, and job attitudes. My research on retail workers focuses on common threats to their occupational well-being, including low wages, shift work (e.g., night and weekend work), and balancing multiple roles (e.g., work and family demands). Finally, with regard to nurses, I am interested how both positive work experiences, such as saving lives or being thanked by a family member, as well as negative work experiences, such as interpersonal conflict, staffing shortages, and resource constraints, affect nurses’ burnout, engagement, and desires to leave the nursing profession. Robert Sinclair

Teams and team training. Teams and teamwork are an increasingly important aspect of industrial, governmental, military, and academic organizations. I participate in research that looks at how to train and develop effective teams, how to measure team performance, and how to understand the internal processes that contribute to team success and failure. Fred Switzer

Quantitative research methods. How can you tell statistically if a company is discriminating against minorities? Does an employment test that’s valid in the steel industry also work in the restaurant business? How do you know? One of my research interests is quantitative methods in organizational research and how companies and researchers can use mathematical methods to understand and solve problems. Fred Switzer